Originally Posted by
mdarnton
I really don't think so. I'm doing this pretty critically--give me a bit of credit here. For one thing, the scratches start sparse, about the depth, not the frequency, of 8000 grit. Then as I strop, they increase in frequency. I've tried various angles, and the scratches form at the angles I'm stropping. I'm not a sharpening newbie--I've been doing it for 30 years and Ido know what I'm seeing. And as I said, it's happening with every strop, not just the one I sanded, not just the new ones, the old ones.
What I'm not looking for here is various people who've never bothered to look for themselves telling me I'm imagining things. That's really not very helpful.
I guess I'm going to have to solve this one myself.